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SubjectRe: ISSUE: psaux does not load in 2.2.0pre6
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, David Woodhouse wrote:

> > The "proper" solution is to make the keyboard+(optionally)PS/2 driver
> > modular :)
>
> Or to have some way of forcing the driver to check for a mouse after
> boot time - like you can tell SCSI controllers to check for new devices.

Might be nice.

> Or even better, to have the driver automatically notice when a mouse is
> plugged in, without intervention from the user at all. P'raps it should
> scan for a mouse whenever /dev/psaux is opened when a mouse isn't
> currently thought to be attached?

A lot of PCs lock hard when you attach a PS/2 mouse while running. (I'm
pretty sure this is a hardware thing, rather than a driver issue, although
I don't remember being foolish enough to try it on a running Linux box :)

Matthew.


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